Losing Honduras, Zelaya Wins Outside Support
By MARC LACEY
By MARC LACEY
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Manuel Zelaya was close to slipping into Honduran history books as a former president with ideas as large as his signature Stetson hat, but nowhere near enough political consensus to remake his troubled country.
Then came his forced removal from office Sunday, which has catapulted the lame duck leader to a level of international prominence he almost certainly would not have achieved otherwise and turned him into a symbol — an undeserved one, his many critics insist — of a president whose democratic mandate was denied him.
On Tuesday, Mr. Zelaya’s newfound relevance took him to one of the world’s biggest stages, at the lectern of the United Nations General Assembly, where he portrayed himself as the victim of a vicious, power-hungry elite that refused to share power with his country’s many poor.
“A crime has been committed, a crime against humanity, a crime which we all reject,” he said. “Whenever brute force prevails over reason, humankind returns to its primeval state, to the era of the garrote, where everything is reduced to force.”
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